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Online Instructor-Led Productivity and Self-Management Courses

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The Benefits of Productivity Training

Learn how to better manage your time, your meetings, and your life with one of our online instructor-led productivity workshops. These offerings focus on such skills as time management, goal setting, habit building, meeting management. Regardless of the topic, the courses are practical and designed to flatten the learning curve.

About the Online Instructor-Led Course Format

Virtual training allows us to work with your group in several ways. We can all join remotely, we can join your intact team from our location, or we can run a hybrid workshop with some people at a distance and others in a shared space. We will learn about your circumstances and choose a configuration that will deliver an interactive experience for all those in attendance.

Other Program Formats

In addition to instructor-led online training, we offer self-paced training courses and onsite training options. As you browse through our catalog, you will notice our onsite and virtual courses directories contain similar offerings. If you find something in one format you would prefer in another, let us know. We can usually convert our instructor-led programs.

Workshop Length

We’ve designed our virtual training courses in segments that last about two hours. Our longer courses consist of several two-hour segments. We can facilitate multi-segment programs on the same or different days depending on your need. The links below will take you to the individual course overviews. Questions? Drop us a line or give us a call.

Basic Time Management

Tackling Time Management: Productivity Fundamentals

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

This virtual classroom session covers the fundamentals of time management and specific solutions to common problems people face when making choices about where they focus at work. The program is interactive, engaging, and zeros in on the fundamentals anyone with a job should understand.

Time Management

Productivity Basics and Beyond: Time Management Tactics for Getting the Right Things Done

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

Solid time management skills are the key to getting the most out of the day. This course discusses the importance of focus and making good choices. It also addresses goal setting and the value of thinking strategically about tasks. Upon request, we can easily tailor this course to address the specific concerns a group may have about how they do their work and solutions to their time management and productivity challenges.

Time Management for Managers

Rock the Clock: Time Management for Managers and Supervisors

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Managers and supervisors face a range of time management and productivity challenges specific to those in leadership roles. This web-based course addresses those issues. The program covers such topics as thinking strategically about time, balancing management functions with everyday work, choosing the right tasks to delegate and monitoring what’s assigned, and evaluating progress against long-term goals. As with many of our productivity courses, we can tailor a session to meet needs specific to a group in advance if concerns are shared up front.

Meeting Management

Meeting Management Fundamentals: How to Run a Successful Group Discussion

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Poorly run meetings cost organizations thousands even millions of dollars each year. Dysfunction leads to morale problems, poor decisions, and a host of other issues that prevent a group from performing at its best. This course covers the fundamental skills needed to plan and facilitate productive group discussions: creating an agenda; selecting the right place, time, and people; managing participation; and troubleshooting common problems.

Meeting Design

Better Prep, Better Performance: Designing Effective Meetings

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Too often, people spend time in meetings doing and discussing things they could have handled offline. Time for collaboration suffers, attendees experience frustration, and nobody wants to attend the next gathering. If this story sounds familiar, your team could probably benefit from this online meeting design course. The program covers best practices for moving routine content to prep work, organizing an agenda, capturing notes, and getting the most out of the time a group spends together.

Virtual Meeting Management

Discussions at a Distance: Best Practices for Better Virtual Meetings

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings! They're not always productive when they're in person, and without training the problem rarely improves when meetings move to a virtual format. This online instructor-led course focuses on best practices for running and participating in virtual meetings. The training workshop is suited for people in charge as well as those who do not have an active leadership role in the meetings they attend.

Hybrid Meeting Management

Here and There: Conducting Better Hybrid Meetings

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

She's in a home office, he's in a hotel room, another person is dialing in from the car, and the rest are around a conference table. The meeting never comes together, and the team leaves frustrated and dissatisfied - a sad situation that could have been avoided. Learn how during this interactive hybrid meeting management course. The program offers solid advice for leveling the playing field and providing everyone with an equal seat at the table no matter where they are.

Minute Taking

Making Minutes Meaningful: How to Take Great Notes Without Going Nuts

Format: Virtual Classroom Course, Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

In both formal and informal meetings, someone is usually responsible for documenting conversations and creating formal minutes or follow-up notes. Few people look forward to wearing the minute-taker’s hat. Determining what to write and how to write it can be hard work! This course aims to make the process easier. The program covers a range of best practices and offers concrete suggestions for capturing what matters in meetings.

Goal Setting

Lift Off!: Planning and Goal Setting to Get Things Done

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learn how to focus on the right things and set meaningful, measurable goals during this online workshop. The program relies heavily on exercises and activities and is well suited for groups that wish to focus on individual goals, group goals, organizational goals, or all three.

Positive Habits

Step-by-Step Success: The Power of Positive Habits

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

People who know how to build positive habits realize amazing results over time. This online workshop explores the power of habits and offers ideas for building brain-friendly habits participants are likely to stick with. The program is practical, hands on, and suited to people who want to establish better personal habits and groups who want to improve collective habits.

Growth Mindset

The Learning Team: Adopting a Growth Mindset for Greater Accountability and Group Performance

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

This online workshop introduces the benefits of a growth mindset and actions people can take to achieve one. It is an excellent starting point for companies, departments, or teams eager to explore the concept and take steps toward becoming a learning team.

Mindfulness and Resiliency

The Bounce-Back Mindset: Tools and Tips for Building Resilience

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Why is it that some people seem to handle change easily, bounce back from disappointment, and thrive, despite the chaos and uncertainty that surrounds them? These people know and practice tools of resilience. During this hands-on, instructor-led webinar, participants will learn methods and strategies for putting their best foot forward and thriving when facing times of change.

Stress Management

Managing Stress: How to Build Self-Esteem and Stay Positive on the Job

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

It’s impossible to go through life without encountering stress at some point. The key to surviving the experience is knowing how to deal with tension, anxiety, and discomfort. This web-based stress management program explains stress, describes its positive and negative impact, offers tools for handling what can be controlled, and suggest coping skills for managing factors that can’t or won’t change. Upon request, we can tailor this course to specifically address any workplace stressors shared in common by the participants.

Delegation Skills

Delegation Fundamentals: Success Strategies for Assigning Tasks to Others

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

Managers who know how to delegate develop their people and get more done. Unfortunately, many people in supervisory roles don't delegate as well or as often as they should. This course aims to change that. Taught in two segments, this instructor-led program addresses the who, what, how, when, where, and why of delegation. By the end of the workshop, those who attend should have a stronger knowledge of what it takes to get delegation right.

Teleworking Strategies

Remote Control: Teleworking Know-How Made Easier

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learning to telework effectively takes time and practice. Getting organized, developing strong habits, staying connected with coworkers, and remaining engaged require deliberate work. This webinar suggests ideas for accomplishing all of those activities and more.

Managing Teleworkers

The Long-Distance Manager: Skills for Supervising Teleworkers, Telecommuters, and Other Decentralized Employees

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Managing employees takes work, and it's even more of a challenge when people are not located in the same place. This interactive webinar is designed to give participants the skills they need to successfully manage teleworkers and other decentralized employees. During the program, participants will learn how to supervise without micromanaging, how to model desired behaviors, how to create a communication plan, and how to increase collaboration and build a sense of team.

Managing Matrix Teams

Making the Most of the Matrix: Skills for Managing Crisscross Teams

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

He's got three supervisors, and he has four. By some miracle, there's little conflict and a clear sense of what's important and what's not a priority. Is this happening by magic? No, it's careful planning by managers who know how to run high-functioning matrix teams. This short course outlines the fundamentals for doing just that.

Project Management

From Plans to Deliverables: The Fundamentals of Project Management

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

Learn the fundamentals of project management during this three-part project management training workshop. Taught online, this hands-on workshop covers the basics anyone who manages projects or serves on a project team should understand. From project charters to project closing, the training program hits on key elements covered in any good foundational course.

Microsoft Outlook

A Better Outlook: Getting the Most from Email

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Because of its speed, email can be a blessing or a curse. It doesn't take long to write and send a message. Consequently, some email messages miss the mark. Others clog inboxes. This course offers best practices for writing and organizing email messages. During the session, we will address the fundamentals of email etiquette and how to use folders, rules, QuickParts, and other tools to keep a mailbox neat.

Zoom Basics

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Essential Skills for Participating in Zoom Meetings with Ease

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

If your team is new to Zoom and wants to learn the fundamentals, this course is for you. Led by a knowledgeable instructor, the program lasts two hours and covers the basics anyone who participates in Zoom meetings should know.

Better Virtual Meetings with Zoom

Zero in on Zoom: Engagement Skills for Better Virtual Meetings

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learn how to conduct better meetings during this interactive session on using the Zoom meeting platform. During this session, participants will discover how to organize information, communicate meeting goals, use engagement tools, and drive conversations forward using focusing language, pattern interrupts, and other techniques.

“Yesterday’s workshop was both thoroughly enjoyable and tremendously beneficial. From all accounts, it was a productive, engaging, and substantive experience from which participants were able to glean significant professional insights and lessons for best practices in their field.”

Hugh H., Director of Program Development, Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc.

“Thank you. This was the first course I’ve had virtually that truly maxed the technology to solicit audience participation. Thanks for teaching by doing!”

Training Participant, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

“I wanted to thank you again for the chat training. This was essential to our new chat initiative moving forward, and we hope to see some substantial increases in our customer satisfaction scores in the upcoming new year.”

Brad B., IT Manager, Major US Bank’s IT Service Desk Manager

“My director just called me and said whatever discussions you and Stefanie had made this training focused, interesting, fun, and valuable – she’s already getting additional feedback on the team (they love the interactivity). She already wants me to work with you and Chris on something else. And she’s not an easy push….so thank you, thank you!”

Leo S., Training and Development, HHS

“Charles’ presentation style is so engaging that I felt like he was speaking to me! Thanks for making what could be a dry topic a fun session!”

Training Participant, Data Driven Storytelling (Virtual)

“I have never attended D&I training before and didn’t know what to expect. This exceeded my expectations. It wasn’t boring. It was timely and relevant. D&I can be a sensitive topic with some and I felt like the approach here brought people along with being judgmental or condemning anyone.”

Training Participant, ICBA

“This course provided everything you would need to hold a successful chat.”

Chat Webinar Participant, Port Authority of Allegheny County

“Our customer service manager of 21 years stated that this training was the best and the most relevant class she attended in her career.”

Simon B., R.E. Carroll Inc.

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About The Virtual Classroom How does web-based training work?

The Full List See all virtual classroom courses.

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Online Instructor-Led Productivity and Self-Management Courses

Virtual Classroom Training . Distance Learning Workshops

The Benefits of Productivity Training

About the Online Instructor-Led Course Format

Other Program Formats

Workshop Length

Tackling Time Management: Productivity Fundamentals

Productivity Basics and Beyond: Time Management Tactics for Getting the Right Things Done

Rock the Clock: Time Management for Managers and Supervisors

Meeting Management Fundamentals: How to Run a Successful Group Discussion

Better Prep, Better Performance: Designing Effective Meetings

Discussions at a Distance: Best Practices for Better Virtual Meetings

Here and There: Conducting Better Hybrid Meetings

Making Minutes Meaningful: How to Take Great Notes Without Going Nuts

Lift Off!: Planning and Goal Setting to Get Things Done

Step-by-Step Success: The Power of Positive Habits

The Learning Team: Adopting a Growth Mindset for Greater Accountability and Group Performance

The Bounce-Back Mindset: Tools and Tips for Building Resilience

Managing Stress: How to Build Self-Esteem and Stay Positive on the Job

Delegation Fundamentals: Success Strategies for Assigning Tasks to Others

Remote Control: Teleworking Know-How Made Easier

The Long-Distance Manager: Skills for Supervising Teleworkers, Telecommuters, and Other Decentralized Employees

Making the Most of the Matrix: Skills for Managing Crisscross Teams

From Plans to Deliverables: The Fundamentals of Project Management

A Better Outlook: Getting the Most from Email

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Essential Skills for Participating in Zoom Meetings with Ease

Zero in on Zoom: Engagement Skills for Better Virtual Meetings

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